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School And Before
I lived in Holly Street, North Kilbowie, I was born there 1949. My gran and grampa moved into 1 Holly Street in 1939 before the Second World War. The stories they knew about the blitz were funny as well as tragic. I lost my ...Read more
A memory of Clydebank in 1954 by
Growing Ou In Galley Common
Growing up in Galley Common was the best part of my life. Dad was the manager of the bus depot, Bunty Motors I think it was called, at the bottom of Hickman Road, I lived at 66 Hickman Road. In the summer a lot of us ...Read more
A memory of Galley Common in 1959 by
Grandfather
My grandfather George Morgan was a colliery blacksmith, he died in an accident at work in October 1938. My grandmother's name was Hannah, she died in 1919. In the 1911 census they lived in 94 Margam Street, Cymmer. My grandfather had ...Read more
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Pellon Lane Area In The 1950s
I used to live just off Commercial Road on Gibson Street in the 1950s. The houses were very basic with a living room, a bedroom, attic and cellar. We shared a toilet with another family which was at the end of the ...Read more
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First School
I was six when this photo was taken. We lived in a tiny flat in Curzon Street, basically one room, and I went to school at Fintragh, a tiny private school in two rooms part way down the high street, opposite the Post Office. This traffic ...Read more
A memory of Calne in 1950 by
Luther Paxton Plumber
The building jutting out into Castle Hill on the left upper of this picture is no. 17 and was my Great Uncle Luther Paxton's plumbers shop. The shop was on the ground floor and he and his wife, Amy lived on the upper two ...Read more
A memory of Richmond in 1948 by
Welsh Girl From Six Bells
Born in Abergavenny in Dec/ 1951. Brought home to my Nanna's house who we lived with in 1 Lancaster Street where my family lived. Dad worked down the six bells pit at the time, and I have fond memories while I was growing ...Read more
A memory of Six Bells in 1958 by
Carrog Memory, As A Ww2 Evacuee.
I first visited Carrog in 1939 as an evacuee, at the start of World War 2. I was accompanied by my two sisters, having travelled by train from Birkenhead on the Wirral. All the evacuees were escorted to the Church Hall ...Read more
A memory of Carrog in 1940 by
Langley Special School
My brother Michael Read was in Langley Special School (at least that's what I thought it was called) around1956/7ish. I remember we travelled by bus from Skipton to visit him but I wasn't allowed in to see him as I was only 2 ...Read more
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A Childhood Reminiscence
I lived in Edgware from 1941 and, although a young child, I remember the war years vividly, especially collecting shrapnel and the sounds of bombs, anti-aircraft guns and V2 rockets. In 1944 I began school at Edgware ...Read more
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Another view of the beach at Canvey Island shows children busily playing around the many deckchairs. Most of the older holidaymakers are well wrapped up against the cold.
The Square stands at the very heart of the town, astride the River Bourne.
Grange is the hamlet at the foot of Borrowdale, where the River Derwent, seen on the left of this photograph, meanders through water meadows into mighty Derwent Water to the north.The name 'grange
The chapel, at the abbey's east end, was completed in 1512 after ten years of building work.
Even so, it must have felt gloomy at times, and the functional mid- 20th-century furniture does nothing to improve matters, looking ugly and incongruous in such a setting.
Gush's (left) was a well-known restaurant which had already been established at least 25 years when this picture was taken.
It is all bustle at the Market in this picture of the large Thames-side town, properly called Grays Thurrock.
Low Brook was built in the middle of the 20th century as an overspill housing estate just to the south-east of Rockbeare village.
The parish church is at the top of the street, out of camera shot.This is also an area of the town known as Petty France because, along with Ashbourne in Derbyshire, Leek was used to house French
The house before the Bell Inn, at the end of the street, is now a garage.
Visitors enjoy the beach at Dymchurch whilst a boat waits to take people on a cruise.
The long building at the end of the cul-de-sac, now Windsor Court, is a home for the elderly.
A fragment of the medieval Town Wall, this postern gate allowed the townsfolk to obtain drinking water from springs at the Greyfriars.
Looking eastwards along the river Bure, this photograph shows a wide range of sailing and motor boats.
Tetbury lies near the boundary of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire on the long stretch of high road between Stroud and Malmesbury.
At the centre of this photograph lies the Norman tower of Oxford Castle. Within its precincts lie a Saxon mound and a Norman crypt.
Such is the unbroken nature of the West Dorset coastline that artificial harbours had to be constructed at Lyme Regis and West Bay.
A carriage with top-hatted coachman waits patiently outside one of Cheyne Walk’s many grand Georgian brick houses.
The first castle at Manorbier was probably a motte and bailey erected by Odo de Barri.
The building on the right at the bottom of Pelham Street was soon to be demolished and replaced by Boots the Chemists.
This building is described by Nikolaus Pevsner as 'Ludlow's bad luck . . . there is nothing that could be said in (its) favour'.
Built in the 18th century, Tapton House is where railway engineer and businessman George Stephenson spent the last years of his life.
This is one of the most popular of the Broadland river inns, equally accessible by road or river.
Mudeford is a pleasant fishing village at the mouth of Christchurch harbour, though the waters around are now full of leisure sailors.
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